182 IQE'sQES KjA lo'l THEIR M\TH. [ethnology 



coat, Blue-Jay?" He took a nose ornament and the person cried: 

 "Abahaba, my nose-ornament, Bkie-Jay." Then a basket fell down 

 from above. He took it and put it back. Then a salmon roe fell down. 

 He put it back, and again be searched under the bed for persons. Then, 

 again, the people tittered and laughed at him. His sister said to him: 

 " Stay bere quietly. Why should they be called shadows if they would 

 not act as they do?" They looked around. There was a salmon roe 

 [put up in a bag for winter use] and they ate it. Blue- Jay said again: 

 " Where may these people be ?" His elder sister replied : "Here they 

 are, here they are; but you do not see them." When it got dark Blue- 

 Jay said: "We will sleep bere." Now they slept during tlie night. 

 Blue Jay awoke and went out. He tried to urinate standing. It ran 

 down his legs. Blue-Jay's elder sister went out. She sat down on 

 the ground and urinated. There stood her urine. Blue Jay spread his 

 legs: "Look bere, lo'i, what became of me!" He pulled bis groins 

 and bis sister cried mucb. "Ababa, that hurts me, Squint-eye ! " "Is 

 it lo'i's body, and it hurts her?" After some time she took revenge 

 upon bim. Sbe pulled the penis; "Anah," cried Blue- Jay, "it liurts 

 me, lo'i." "Is it his body, and he feels sick?" Then they went to 

 sleep again. Blue-Jay awoke early. Then be was a man again as 

 before. His elder sister awoke. Now she was again a woman as 

 before. Sbe was well again. Thus they took revenge on Blue-Jay, 

 because be bad teased the people. "Let us go, else they will tease us 

 again," said Blue- Jay. His sister replied: "You did not believe me 

 and they teased us." Then Blue- Jay went bome. He arrived at bome. 

 His sister said: "Now we have gone visiting enough." 



